Ὁμόνοια

The Hinge of Aristotle'sEthicsandPolitics

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ID3889490
AuthorsThornton C Lockwood, Thornton Lockwood (0000-0003-4977-5184, Quinnipiac University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume59
Issue1
Pages7-30
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217319000337
OpenAlexW3036086421
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

Scholarship on the political ramifications of Aristotle's account of friendship has focused on "political friendship" and has lost sight of the importance of his account of "like-mindedness" or "concord" (ὁμόνοια). Such a focus is mistaken for a number of reasons, not least of which is that, whereas Aristotle has a determinate account of like-mindedness, he has almost nothing to say about political friendship. My paper examines the ethical and political aspects of like-mindedness in light of a disagreement between Richard Bodéüs and René Gauthier about the autonomy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as a work of ethical theory

Autonomy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Friendship · Nothing · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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